Stuart Fiddes

Life drawing © Stuart Fiddes

As an art student of the late sixties, I realised that graphic design was where I wanted to go. Now after over 30 years of working in the “creative industries” and having owned successful design companies I have returned to my roots and am exploring all the nooks and crannies of my once-dormant soul. Thus [...]

Alison Rickman

Alison Rickman

On returning to Devon in 1998, Alison studied ceramics with Clive Pearson, specialising in Greenman plaques and in parallel took a City & Guilds teaching qualification and then taught Bellydance and Feng Shui at local Colleges. She also is a British Horse Society Assistant Instructor, trained at Col .W. (Bill) Froud’s and Capt. Hewitt’s, Devon. [...]

Karen Hawkins

Karen Hawkins

Karen makes site specific work for public places, schools, festivals, libraries, parks and public events. The projects are often designed as collaborations with the community. She also provides an extensive range of art workshops that explore creativity and skills based learning as well as training courses for teachers and teaching assistants in schools.

Sarah Woolfenden

Sarah Woolfenden / Drawing

Sarah trained at The Slade School of Fine Art and then gained a PGSE as an art teacher. She worked for many years in a variety of schools teaching art and art history. Being luck enough to work full time as an artist now she is rediscovering her artistic roots, a love of drawing and [...]

Sarah Gallifent

Sarah Gallifent / Rippling Mussells / Photograph

By staying faithful to her textile tradition, subjects are photographed by focusing on the colour, texture, pattern, light, movement and linear features which weave through the fabric of the picture. By paying attention to detail, Sarah uses the camera lens to isolate an object, extract it from its context and remove any indication of scale, [...]

Rachel Sumner

Rachel Sumner / Whale Island / 70cm x 70cm

I originate from rural Northamptonshire. I successfully completed a foundation course at Northampton College of Art followed by a degree in Fine Art Painting at Maidstone College of Art, graduating in the 1980s. Over the years, I have developed a strong interest in textiles and it was this that lead on to my becoming a [...]

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